The growth of mobile financial services in Africa is having an undeniable impact across the continent, and Ghana is no exception. The ability to transfer money via mobile phones enables migrants who have moved to urban centres for work to send remittances to relatives still living in remote rural areas absent of any sort of bank or financial...
The Ghanaian government is running a range of programmes aimed at enabling and teaching locals to use computer services and work in the IT sector. These include various training initiatives, as well as the distribution of computers to educational institutions and students under the Better Ghana Agenda, a development initiative of the ruling NDP...
As the first sub-Saharan African country to have a mobile network over 20 years ago, Ghana is accustomed to its position as one of the pioneers of telecommunications on the continent. Its telecoms market is one of the most competitive in Africa, and as mobile penetration figures rise, operators are increasingly looking to non-voice services to drive...
The telecommunications sector in South Africa is among the continent’s most developed. Telkom, the country’s former monopoly and fixed-line incumbent, is Africa’s largest telecommunications operator, competing alongside a number of heavyweight home-grown mobile providers. As in most sophisticated markets, the sector tends toward encouraging data-...
With plans under way for some of the most sophisticated wireless infrastructure on the continent, a sizeable network backbone, high mobile data usage and encouraging corporate demand, South Africa is bursting with opportunities for growth in information and communications technology (ICT).
The introduction of the latest wireless network technology – long-term evolution (LTE) networks – was a surprisingly delicate issue in South Africa in early 2012. It was expected that spectrum licences for the networks would be awarded before the year’s end, but, even as operators race to increase capacity, implementation complications have delayed...
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